Ecology

1. The role an organism plays in a community i.e. how it fits in and interacts with other organisms
3. A feature of an organism that allows it to compete more successfully in its habitat
4. The study of how living things interact with each other and their environment
6. Consumers that eat only plants e.g. cows, sheep
8. All the plants and animals that live in a particular area and share the resources there
11. Organisms that break down dead plant and animal material in the soil e.g. earthworms, fungi
13. The position an organism occupies in a food chain
15. A network of interconnected food chains
16. An organism that feeds on other organisms to survive
17. A list of organisms in the order in which one is eaten by the next
18. Consumers that eat only other animals to survive e.g. wolves, big cats

2. A group of plants and animals interacting with their environment as a unit e.g. rainforest, woodland, coastline
5. The struggle between two or more organisms of different species for a resource that is in short supply e.g. food, mates, water, sunlight
7. When two organisms rely on each other for some aspect of survival
9. All the members of the same species
10. Consumers that eat a mixture of plants and animals e.g. humans, pigs
12. An organism that makes its own food e.g. all plants
14. The place where a plant or animal lives e.g. riverbank, hedgerow, seashore